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Diane Keaton's salty GMA nod to Sawyer's lips - VIDEO

By Stone Martindale Jan 16, 2008, 15:56 GMT

Diane Keaton appeared on "Good Morning America" Tuesday and used the f-word. Diane Keaton arrives for the film premiere of 'Mad Money' in Los Angeles, California USA 09 January 2008. She is one of the three female stars in the film'Mad Money', alongside Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah. The film is about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship then rob a bank. EPA/PAUL BUCK

Diane Keaton arrives for the film premiere of 'Mad Money' in Los Angeles, California USA 09 January 2008. She is one of the three female stars in the film'Mad Money', alongside Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah. The film is about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship then rob a bank. EPA/PAUL BUCKOn "Good Morning America" to promote her new film "Mad Money," Keaton told host Diane Sawyer that she admired her beauty, especially Sawyer's full lips, saying that if she had lips like that she wouldn't have had to work on her "f---ing personality" and would be married by now.Immediately after a flumoxed Keaton made an apology, and Sawyer warned that her mother was going to wash her mouth out with soap.ABC News senior vp Jeffrey Schneider said the network bleeped the word for the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zone feeds and regretted the incident."It was obviously unfortunate, and we were quick to correct it for subsequent feeds," he said.Under current law and commission policy, broadcasters can be fined up to $325,000 per indecent incident for each station.